Quotes About Immigrant

The Continental Army was a national institution and helped to make Hamilton the optimal person to articulate a vision of American nationalism, his vision sharpened by the immigrant's special love for his new country.

He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's a nurse so I was going to go into medicine, also.

Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.

Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

I'll always be a foreigner.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

I was only pretending to be the underpaid, duplicitous, ineffective, struggling teacher of immigrant French. The real Suzanne was the lover and muse of a brilliant artist.

Com'è che appena apro bocca tutti quanti mi dicono che sono irlandesi e perché non andiamo a bere qualcosa insieme? Essere americano non basta. Bisogna essere sempre anche qualcos'altro, irlandesi-americani, tedesco americani, sicché viene da chiedersi come sarebbero andati avanti se qualcuno non avesse inventato il trattino (110).

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.

Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.

We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.

I never take for granted how great Australia is and how well I have been treated here, so thank you for this chance at making a good life.